Saturday, 21 April 2007

As if the Iraqi government and the Americans are not satisfied enough with the thousands of concert barriers and hundreds of thousands of wires suffocating Baghdad and its residents. And as if they have not quenched their thirst yet from dividing the residents of this city, who lived in peace for decades, into Sunnis and Shiites killing each other.

Now, both of them are intending to build a wall to surround the Sunni district of Adhamiyah in northern Baghdad to "protect Sunnis from Shiites who are coming in and hitting Sunnis, and prevent Sunnis to across the street for retaliation."

Now, they are trying by force to divide Baghdad neighborhoods by sects, as they've failed to do so since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 when they said that Shiites, who were oppressed by Sunnis during Saddam Hussein's era, are the majority with about 60 percent while Sunnis only a minority with about 20 percent.

And unfortunately, uneducated people of both sects have followed this American idea and have destroyed their coexistence.

What we can say except of hailing the democracy and freedom which were brought to us by our "liberators."

I think there is no need to dwell more on the wall project as the attached is the tender which was issued by the U.S. forces.

“We called it our Berlin Wall,” said Saad Khalef, 41, told The NYT on March 6 story as he surveyed the newly uncovered ground where the walls had stood, as crushed and pale as the skin beneath a bandage. “Now we can breathe easy. Yesterday, I felt a breeze coming through, I swear to God.”The NYT's Anthony Shadid in a piece on Jan. 6, 2011 two days after Muqtada Al-Sadr's return from nearly four-year self-imposed exile in Iraq: In 2004, an American spokesman in Baghdad called Mr. Sadr “a two-bit thug.” On Wednesday, the State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, called him “the leader of an Iraqi political party that won a number of seats in the March 2010 election.”